am. i am. as fran celebrates military success in mali we take a closer look at the possible complications the campaign could bring. egypt's military chief says this country is on the verge of collapse but says the army will stand firm on the continued clashes between anti-government protesters and security forces. and presidential brother obama two police chiefs of the u.s. cities devastated by deadly mass shootings is appalled and tougher gun control rooms on many there's still defend their walk to be on.

it's nineteen pm here in moscow you're watching r t with me to one would say it's good to have you company with us. president francois hollande has hailed france's military intervention in mali as a success the mali an army has made to big advances against islamist insurgents all with the assistance of french troops and early archies tom botches told my colleague that he said now about the progress made so far and the problems that have come with it. campaign starts with french troops about two and a half weeks ago sweeping up from the center of the country up to with these these islamist held areas meeting very little resistance really they are they go on there was an incident here in qana where in fact a french helicopter strike killed some civilians apart from that though the french

had been welcomed with with street parties and crowds coming out to greet the convoys as they arrived in each of these towns the islamist militants retreating not wanting to stand and fight many people thinking that they have been retreating further into the deserts in the north there's only one town of appreciable size left to capture after the fall of of timbuktu without nearly without a shot fired and then it seems that the next stage of the operation will be to try and hunt out islamist militants who have gone to hide in the desert and many observers think that it's possible a guerrilla war may result in the desert there after that there is also increased involvement from other countries and ecowas force of west african troops about seven thousand five hundred of them are coming into mali to take over some garrison duties and steadily take over the fighting role from the french there's

also been talk in brussels of e.u. troops being sent to train some of the local soldiers and the u.k. has announced it's going to send a small force but then other soldiers also to protect those those troops sent to train local soldiers as well and the new house was already environed as well it was there was absolutely so far the u.s. has been sending aerial support it's been sending transport planes refueling planes it seems now though it's reported that the u.s. may be in negotiations with an easier next to mali over the possibility. all of a drone base there and those drones flying from near the border with mali could take part in these operations to try and hunt out islamist militants there there's also been talk of a u.s. base down in. the south of mali the details of that not really

clear at the moment it is worth noting though. is very rich in natural resources oil gold you renia and a lot of those exports go to france and the u.s. so we have talk of drones a u.s. base how far could this possibly spread. the question on many people's lips as the as the first phase of this operation winds up where are these militants going to go where is the violence going to go raising the fears that around the region this fighting as the militants are pushed out of the strongholds they've been in they could scatter all over the place and spread violence with them or it might be a fair argument then to say that the french might be getting a little bit ahead of themselves by claiming this is been a successful mission the u.k. government has announced it's sending three hundred fifty non-combat military personnel to mali and west africa it's only two weeks after prime minister david cameron's plaids that no british army is there to would step on mali saw oil labor

m.p. jeremy coleman says it would have been better if the prime minister had kept his promise. david cameron is getting sucked into something i don't think he's seriously thought through two weeks ago we started offering transport planes to france we then sent force protection to back up the transport planes we sent trainers and we have additional force protection to protect we then have surveillance aircraft going overhead and there are reports of u.k. special forces i think we're being dragged into this the danger is the more you send any troops in trainers over anything else just suppose something awful happens like one of the training groups is killed by what are termed to be insurgent forces what then happens you then go after those groups you then have a greater british military involvement we may well be in for a quite a long high tech surveillance. warfare being conducted by the french and possibly

was britain and others. against people that know the terrain very well and will be hidden by the local population this could be a very long and very nasty conflict the head of egypt's army is warning that the country is on the verge of collapse after almost a week of violent unrest between the government and opposition militias earlier the cabinet push through a law giving the military the power of arrest while the president declared a state of emergency and curfews in three provinces this was ignored by protesters took to the streets on mosques across the country playing for regime change in cairo crowds continued to clash with security forces leaving piles of burning debris in the streets there was no breakthrough in attempts at a compromise as the opposition ignored calls for a national dialogue by the president akhmed co-founder of the council of trustees of the revolution in egypt says the military could be playing out its own game behind the scenes. the surface interpretation of what's happening definitely that

there are groups who are willing to sabotage anything and try to embarrass the government specifically morsi and the military that's on the surface however there are deeper interpretations of what's going on some of the interpretation goes as far as that the military council or the military is behind all of this so that they can have. the grip over this waste canal and intensify their presence militarily over there probably really don't want to see an economic development of this specific strategic area because it would hand over to civilian oversight of the canal rather than military oversight of the canal according to a new constitution something called the national defense council this council in most countries and previously had an advisory stature now it has more of an executive that has more military members on this board than civilians

which outnumbers the civilians including the commander in chief the president which means they can force the president to take certain decisions which we have just seen in the past couple of days when they had the commander in chief say that he will declare martial law or emergency emergency law in those specific areas. and some news coming in from syria now activists and rebels are say the bodies of sixty five young men have been found on a bank of a river in the northern syrian city of aleppo i must warn you that viewers may find the following footage extremely disturbing. most of them had their hands tied behind their backs with gunshot wounds to their heads the bodies were covered in marjah and showed signs of decay activists say more bodies would still be in the water at the moment there is no information on who carried out the killings.

you know all syria's a rebel coalition is in paris to plead for aid and political backing to overthrow the assad regime the opposition needs money to stay viable but its efforts to form of provincial government have so far failed this as france warns islamic militants could gain ground and punch the country into further chaos if cash flow is not secured r.t. caught up with the one of the leaders of the opposition and asked him what he things is needed to bring peace to syria. we need this some new weapons against iran plays you know because bashar assad says. airplanes to damage villages and cities and their civilians we need to protect ourselves our children from killing every day we have more than sixteen thousand children were dead for at least twenty two months ago something

unbelievable it's a lot right so to help syrian people and to help and syrian crisis you need weapons and money is that is that correct yeah sure sure and we need. support also who can cooperate with a man killed more than sixty thousand people we are concerned but we are not afraid you know because of the majority of fighter groups in syria is not extremist is not dearest on live and dignity and what a loss or group from iraq are these people fighting for freedom and democracy is why they're fighting for freedom and democracy but maybe we will face some problem with them anyway they are just a smaller part of their evolution is here. but these people are recognized even by french president as exists three ways and terrorists all over the word you

can find extremists but they're not their ear picture only a small part of it please recognize that. so you are absolutely sure that you will be able to control them these people you're very sure very sure about that. but the opposition adamant extremists make up only a small fraction of the armed rebels and will be easy to control historian gerald who one is and buying into that scenario we are reassured by your guest that if the if the dissidents come to power they'll be able to handle elements for fraud but there will be an dissidents at the same play when they were with nato in two thousand and eleven and toppling colonel gadhafi now they are seeking to do the same thing in syria which suggests that they have not learned even the most recent lessons of history now we see that in been ghazi which was the cradle of the revolt

against gadhafi the north atlantic countries have asked their nationals to sleep in ghazi because of resume impending terrorist attacks watched by those they just hope into power so i think we should get with a grain of salt what your guest said in that interview there putting civilians in harm's way by watching attacks from crowded urban communities i was also struck by the fact that your guess that he would not be involved in any negotiation with the assad regime the way wars in is that true negotiate with those who are shooting at you and that is how this war should in but if they refused to negotiate that tends to suggest that this conflict will continue indefinitely. so well to come this hour i'm seeking shelter the number of homeless people in britain looks set to rise dramatically as many believing that new government policies will only for the

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more news today violence is once again flared up. and these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations to rule the day. for more news and analysis you're watching r t. president barack obama has met with police she's from cities in the u.s. when mass shootings have occurred he wants to support the country's gun control policy obama's proposal of tougher gun regulations and a ban on assault weapons has divided public opinion with many standing by the constitution second amendment the right to bear arms can and she can reports. white

house proposals to regulate gun sales there are a wave of protest among those who believe the second amendment of the constitution is in danger as are many that there are a right arms it is a god given right to the sanctity of the second amendment to meet heated national debate someone makers of even threaten to impeach the president to protect the constitution we're going to use every tool possible to fight in the ministration which once every great constitution but do u.s. lawmakers feel strongly about all amendments of that same constitution last month congress seamlessly without much ado passed legislation which gives the government sweeping powers to eavesdrop on communications and review e-mails of anyone they want it's called the foreign intelligence surveillance act the president amendments act completely is an infringement on your fourth amendment right against unlawful search and seizure and basically does away with the probable cause requirement

there's been no national debate on the fourth amendment the mainstream media have been mute on the subject so to score it now as people don't even know about it if you're really savvy and you read a lot of online media you might have heard about pfizer being reauthorized otherwise you're just totally unaware of it and how can you have an opinion on something that you're unaware of that proved to be true as we went out to ask people whether they knew what feisal was and what it could do to their fourth amendment rights have you heard about pfizer but you know no sorry i think i have some idea that it has to do with our taxes but i don't really know but. not surprisingly the same people that have opinions on gun control to keep our guns we're pretty pro gun control right now the government spying bill is not the only legislation that sneaked under the radar of public debate indefinite detention of americans without trial made legal is seen by many lawyers as a blatant violation of the fifth amendment which guarantees due process that was

something that should have been discussed in the presidential debates and people were begging the moderators to mention this it was never mentioned it was just not a part of the debates the constitution may be sacred to many in the us but it seems in washington to bypass it it's enough to say to magic words national security that then has passed these bills i feel like all that has to happen is literally like dianne feinstein waves a letter and says national security and the fear mongering begins and shuts down any kind of debate yet we're having a freewheeling debate on guns some argue it's money that keeps the gun debate at the forefront the national rifle association reportedly spent around twenty four million dollars on congressional elections last year and even more on lobbying to an extent when even as the majority of americans support some regulation on guns gun is to zeerust believe no substantive legislation will be passed by the congress

so he is not going to be able to get anything through congress so i think that the second amendment will be ok the media in the us essentially broke into two camps each bringing all kinds of arguments against the other both sides again and again reading into the text of the second amendment or doing what proposal would or would not be infringe on the people's rights as nasty as they get sometimes but that's what a national debate should look like but one can't help asking where was that big that heated debate when other liberties were at stake in washington i'm going to check out. the u.s. senate foreign relations committee has approved president obama's nomination of john kerry as the next secretary of state it was chosen to succeed hillary clinton who is stepping down after four years in the job politics and international studies professor stephen zunes believes john kerry is likely to be very much all school in his approach. as an outspoken supporter of the iraq war and being among

the no right wing minority of democrats on capitol hill that both authorize the war but. not only. making up least danceable junk your tales about mass and biological and chemical weapons stockpiles and nuclear program nobody would resist us your literary systems are going to think that your it was clear that that was all drawn out there had no so-called weapons of mass destruction you said you were the motive for the war anyway because saddam hussein was a terrible danger and they have the capacity of making those kind of weapon sometimes mentioned of course i got right here rather poignant thirty countries will start hearing resumes that are however i would think ability building unconventional weapons and kerry was essentially taking real conservative lie that hey we have a right you know that a little bit and he is putting aside the moral and legal arguments or rather it was your sash years ago and now in libya we're seeing all those consequences in terms

of two hundred thousand men under arms. and these militias are controlled by the government you see the faults threat from mali to algeria elsewhere is a sales part of shortsightedness that we we've seen some of the other politicians most of them. on a website are right now while people vented their anger at government the greece's finance minister is painting a bright future for the country but the source of his optimism as i teach doc. i write my landmark is about to get a faceless luxury fashion brand is ready to clog millions more its restoration go online for all the details. britain which was once proud of having some of the most effective legislation in the world to fend of homelessness now has eva fifty thousand people sleeping rough and with the

government assuring in public sector spending cuts in an attempt to battle the country's financial troubles the number of homeless people is only expected to rise i chuse plenty bike i went to meet some of those living on the streets. it's freezing cold wet and hungry there's no way feed to go to dry off and no money in your pockets this street is all you've got and there's no one that will help you welcome to birmingham the case capital homelessness. remember right. in there she said drop grandma don't have one. foot out what i mean you shouldn't be home routers a lot of people you called me a short time ordered me real rock carpark were people really. all over the place this is why i got truck there yeah. yeah and regional here

michael is by no means alone in fact the number of homeless people in britain has skyrocketed by twenty five percent since twenty ten reaching fifty thousand people in twenty twelve the biggest spike in the city of birmingham you don't think again people can see you could be walking past you can be sleeping next to warsaw drug. store and the coldness is stupid specialist told me we had to go back for four days on the phone to its twenty one year old much fled his family home where he came to blows with his stepfather he had to sleep rough before being granted emergency shelter in a birmingham hostel it's run by a charity that helps anyone down and out to find employment and get back on their feet looking for work. on the don't know like job already from the moment trying to get it stein you'll second stay at the hostel in three years after growing up in and out of foster care he struggled to keep

a roof over his head you going to do every type find so let's think find money. help and support it's a scary thing like you know you still go face all over again there just isn't enough low cost housing available and with unemployment rising hostels just like this one desperately need to expand the figures from the local authority of people presented as homeless having creased on average by about four hundred percent. for the growing homeless community squatting in one of the city's twelve thousand empty homes used to be an option not anymore just before the winter set in westminster upgraded sporting from a civil matter to a criminal offense predictions that it would translate to more rough sleepers on the streets came true there are a lot of deprived areas in birmingham there are people that don't have working been

given i suppose with it being such a one time in industrialised center the working class families but those jobs just don't exist anymore so i suppose that the poverty is just sort of breeding for the poverty and the resist the reserve big mix of paper in the population and expanding the housing stock ease and innovate reach the point where it's just spilling over and can't cope anymore and with more government budget cuts kicking enough to rate prole many more persons are predicted to slip through the net as the housing crisis escalates probably boyko r t birmingham twenty one people have been killed in a plane crash in kazakstan the plane carrying five crew and at least sixteen passengers when down near the city of marjah in the country's south after one pm local time no one survived in the tragedy the challenger two thousand operated by hazard company's scad was on an internal crash while trying to land in harsh

weather conditions investigators have recovered the plane's flight recorders and are now examining the daughter. now to some other world news this hour a suicide bomber has blown up inside somalia's presidential palace in mogadishu killing two people and injuring three others the attacker detonated his explosives outside the main gate of the residence after being stopped by guards for questioning the president was out of the country at the time of the attack. in belgium up police have dispersed thousands of protesting steel workers with tear gas and water cannon several people were injured in the clashes the protests was against planned plans of closures which could lead to the loss of thirteen hundred jobs the same which announced the plans along with the other steel companies face a lack of demand for steel and iron ore this is potentially another blow for belgian workers after the recent announcement of

a ford cough that tree sutton. coming your way in just a couple of minutes r.t. explores a gold rush in a remote and almost inaccessible plant of the colombian jungle. brief fiasco actually caused a fiasco by singing a song highly critical of president obama ironically at a concert out of his second inauguration according to the huffington post he was thrown off stage by security for insulting the dear leader the sounds really bad like something out of one thousand nine hundred four where thoughts come out of nowhere the second you say something out of line about the party. to the song loop it was singing had been going on for thirty minutes at that point this rant was

more like a hip hop filibuster stopping the whole show and dragging on and on and on the so i think security just wanted to silence him in general not silence as anti obama opinions so you know next time when you want to bring up obama's drone usage or total disregard for the constitution then keep it under three minutes everything will be just fine but that's just my opinion.

the gouveia in northern colombia. beneath these rusty sheds the country's richest gold mine it's operated by canadian multinational corporation gran colombia gold. today the army has taken over the sector for a high risk mission. transporting the week's production to a safe location. three gold ingots over twenty kilos each.

here we have sixty eight kilos. that makes one point two million euro. in colombia gold is highly coveted by the criminal organizations. so in order to avoid an ambush the time and day of the transfer or decided at the last minute made my escape the this is the most critical moment and on this side and the gold leaves the factory it up got to be transported to the city of midway in. the in goods or carried away at a run. the soldiers mark alpha course. the operation is completed in four minutes. the precious cargo takes off towards middle .